As the kid slowly wakes while being a bit groggy and they start looking around their current surroundings in confusion, wondering where they are and howâd they get here.
Trying to remember what exactly happened before they passed out, only vaguely remembering that they were running away being scared of something.
It took them a moment before fully remembering what had happened, as they were trying to escape with their friend but got separated and then cornered by that weird adult monster until someone saved them, and made a deal with them self.
Meaning.... this is likely the home of the woman who saved you, who asked you to come with them, and they likely took you to their place when you passed out.
Looking around more carefully you notice this place looking a bit... Odd?
The style of the interior appears to be a bit more of older age, doesnât seem to have much or if any electricity around here.
The only thing currently lightening up the place is the fireplace that is boiling water, as well a few candle chandeliers on the ceiling, and the very little light from outside.
From the looks of it, this house is somewhere deep in the forest, no wonder it doesnât have electricity.
Looking over to some of the cases and shelf around the room, there appears to be lots of books and weird pots and bottles with some strange colored liquid in it, as well some plant stuff here and there.
. . . Â Is this person some kind of a witch? thinking to yourself, you suppose it makes sense how they got saved from that monster back then, but... then what does she plan to do with you?
Your thought gets disturbed as a door from the other side of the room opens up and someone walks into the house from what seems to be outside.
It was the witch who saved you and brought you here, she appears to be carrying a small bag which she lays onto the ground before looking at you,
Witch: âAh my my, youâre finally awake sleepyhead, I suppose it mustâve been quite the experience to pass out like that from fear.
But worry not as per out deal, Iâll make sure you will be safe in here from all those monsters and what not from out there. Â
You didnât forgot right, either way not it would matter the deal was made so Iâll do my best to keep you at it.â
You shake your head at the question asked before responding to her.
Kid: âUh n-no Mam I.. didnât forgot  I think..  my memory is a big foggy right now.
I do think I remember you mentioning something about a catch,... what was that about?â
The witch simply smiles as she walks up closer to the table your standing on and taking a seat on the single chair.
Witch: âAh good good, and yes you remember correct, worry not Iâll explain to you how things are going to go for now.
First off I will tell you I do not plan on keeping you here forever, just long enough until I believe you have done your part and Iâll go onto a next person.
That being said, in return for keeping you save from all those nasty monsters showing up recently outside, you will have to be my little Guinea pig.
Iâm a witch my dear, surely no surprise if you look at me and I have studied magic for a long time but no matter how much magic I study thereâs always more out there!
Iâve seen it to myself to try and learn as much magic I possibly can! but of course for that I also need something... someone to test magic on.
And thatâs where you come in!
Iâll be very frank, thereâs a chance you will die from these experiments, and not many have survived so far.
But at the same time those who do survive I end up giving a bit of extra protection as I let them go, if you manage to survive well consider yourself a lucky one.
Other wise I can assure you your death will otherwise be quick and painless.. Â mostly painless compared to what some of those monsters out there tend to do to people.â
You stand there in shock hearing the witch blunts saying youâre nothing more then a simple test subject for her magic?
Fear slowly taking in, but at the same time... Â is this really the worst thing? Â she gave you the choice back then, Â not that there was much of a choice and if you do survive you get something extra from her?
Taking a few breaths to calm yourself before speaking back to the witch.
Kid: âS-so what kind... Magic do you all plan on using on me then? How long will I need to... Survive?â
Witch: âOh donât worry, weâll see when we get there!
I donât plan on doing magic right away, I do need some preperations for some of them after all, and besides Iâd like to give you at least a bit of time to get used to your situation, a week at most before we start testing.
Even then I wonât test out the more deadly ones until much later on, if any that is.
Oh but donât worry I got a good feeling about you!!  something tells me youâre going to be  just  fine.â
The witch smiles kinda creepily at you as she says that, Â likely she says that to every one she used before to give hope... you donât dig it but just nervously smile back at her... Â and pray for the best.
The witch still looking at you would firstly though ask one more question to you before she would proceed to do something else.
Witch: âNow I remember asking before child but you passed out before answering my question, Â What exactly is your name? Â
Donât take me wrong but Iâd like to know the names of those who will stay with me for the duration of time.â
You take a moment before answering to her as to still taking in the information for the most part.
Kid: âOh uhm.. well my name is ... Â Venna.
Witch: âWonderfull Venna, may this be a great start for us at the time weâll spend together, truly I hope youâll get through this all!
[time skip]
Much time has passed since that day, you never really kept track of time.
It started out actually kinda nicely living with the witch, despite her way of talking and sometimes acting creepy she does seem pretty nice and caring.
If anything over the time you spend with her, you almost feel like you made a bond with her almost like she was family.
At first the magic experiments where nothing really big, some healing spells to try and heal small wounds, some skin color changing magic that easily got reverted back.
Though later on a few magic experiments did ended up affected you more.. permanently, one such magic altered your body where your... gendered parts just disappeared making you literally genderless.
An other magic seemed to affected your hunger and thirst, requiring much less food and drink form that on, Â the witch purposely left this one rather then trying to undo it seeing as itâs rather useful with no seemingly setbacks from it.
But the worst thing that ended up sticking around was a curse that the witch didnât intended to put onto you but also seems unable to remove afterwards.
A curse where your pain got shared with her as well.
The witch got annoyed that she couldnât remove it, and even tried pretty badly to undo it with no avail.
In the end she just sighed and applied some magic onto herself that in order to prevent her from getting affected from the curse, if anything itâs likely she was more annoyed on the fact she cannot do magic tests without hurting herself rather then being unable to remove it, Â at least so you think.
Other magic tests that got tried on you were either simple or painful later on.
Honestly you donât wish to try and remember all of them...
But despite what got thrown onto you, you did your best to come back up and survive!
You got as far you did and was not planning to fall then and there, is what you kept saying to yourself every time.
Which eventually bring us to now, the witch smiling to you in a less creepy way she usually does before she speaks up to you.
Witch: âWell my dear Venna I have to say I am genuinely impressed by you and your determination.
No matter what I ended up testing on you, and you just kept on getting back up.
I almost sweat badly when that one time you actually took a while before getting up, Â yes I think I truly was correct about you and honestly itâs almost a shame for what I am about to do.
...
But  I believe you earned your freedom as much I wish to keep you around.
I almost feel ... sympathetic and sad... no I feel that exactly.
Never thought I ever really grow fond of my guinea pig, but I truly like you.
So as I promised you have survived my âfull courseâ so I shall give you something extra before I will leave this place and go search for a new one.â
The witch would cast some spell fairly quickly onto you as you close your eyes trying to wonder what she just did to you.
Witch: âWorry not, itâs nothing deadly, rather the opposite. Â Consider it a .. warding charm.
It shall protect you from most outside supernatural power and magic influences to an extend.
Making it much harder for others using such powers against you, itâs what i used onto myself to prevent your... Â unfortunate curse from also affecting me.
However that what already happened to you is not blocked of prevented or undone by the charm, and only prevent anything new onto you.
That being said I shall leave this place and go elsewhere, find a new kid to test magic on.
and while I am gone from here youâre free to continue on living in here, Â well until the day I do end up returning back here whenever that maybe.â
But before the witch could actually walk away likely to pack their stuff you stand there in shock that this is how itâs going to end, strangely youâre almost going to miss it and yet... Â you donât want any of this, living here now on your own with all the bad things from your past in your mind and what happened here..
while you do feel also similar feeling to the witch and grew fond of her,.. you donât think you can do this on your own.. not like this that is.
So you ask the witch a question you had been meaning to ask at some point and say it very bluntly that even shock the witch by surprise of the suddenness.
Venna: âI-Iâm thankful for you letting me go but... I canât do this!
C-can you remove my memories!! Â I donât want to live on my self with all the shit that happened to me in the past,.. not from you but before all this.. during all this.. Â and some thing from you i guess in the end...
B-but I just.. Â I donât want to,.. I canât live on with these memories please remove them from me!! I donât care what happens to me afterwards but just.. Â remove it please!â
You beg the witch crying as you do so, before the witch looks at you a bit sadly but complies and cast another magic onto you and then  everything when blank...
Next thing you know, you wake up all alone with no memories inside the cabin in the woods, most things but some supplies was left behind.
and a small note in Vennaâs pocket... no not Venna anymore... just a kid with no name.
Either way, a small note that simple explains the general situation on what happened to them and their situation as is.
The kid would live in the cabin for a little while before leaving and finding their way back to Pale city as they donât seem to think the cabin is all that nice to live at.. to little people?
Theyâre not sure but something just drives them forward to go out explore and make new memories.
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There we go, that is a lot of text... and the art took me a bit to make, honestly I feel like the art could be bigger but my art skills nowhere near that good let alone for my own sanity sake Iâd not go too big on it XD
Anyway, yeah backstory stuff for Voody and what happened to them and how they became what they are âtodayâ so to speak.
Also decided to have voodyâs real name mentioned anyway, which is Venna as originally they were a girl. but no longer, though they never really considered them self a girl, rather found them self neither of the genders and practically never cared much for it.
As for as the reason Venna wanted their memories gone but only when they were free, well their time before the whole Broadcast/tower stuff wasnât all that great, and with what happened when the broadcast/tower stuff happened didnât made it any better.
So in then she just wanted it all gone and wanted to start off fresh.
wether it made thing better or worse,.. who knows, but if anything it was likely for the best.